Turn the Internet into the main communications infrastructure for the next century. What is the main consequence to the architecture?
Predictor: Huitema, Christian
Prediction, in context:The minutes from the April 1995 meeting of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) sets forth goals that are indirectly predictive. In part, the minutes read: ”Priorities for this year’s IAB [the board members’ answers follow]: ”Bob Moskowitz: Focus on how Internet will work for commercial users. Service providers issues, applications, addressing, security. ”Chris Weider: Internet becoming the de facto digital library for the planet. Make sure it all works together. ”Christian Huitema: Turn the Internet into the main communications infrastructure for the next century. What is the main consequence to the architecture? It was decided that we should revisit the issues we voted on a year ago to see which are still relevant.
Biography:Christian Huitema was the developer of a number of research projects in Internet telephony and Internet conferencing in the 1990s at Inria and Telcordia. He went to work for Microsoft in 2000. He was a trustee of the Internet Society from 1995-2001. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: April 19, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Internet Architecture Board
Title, headline, chapter name: Minutes for IAB Teleconference
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.iab.org/IABmins/IABmins.1995-04-19.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Lightburn, Ellie